Tasting Panera’s $22.99 Lobster Roll

Lobster? At Panera? They have great baguettes and soups, but I’m not so sure about lobster. Let’s find out if it’s worth such a hefty price tag.

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Here in new england we don’t mess around about lobster and just the other day i was driving around and stumbled across a billboard that was announcing panera’s new lobster roll now don’t get me wrong i love panera every time i’m sick i get their chicken noodle soup and they make a mean

Broccoli cheddar mac and cheese they also have a few good sandwiches but more importantly to me there’s nothing like snacking on a good baguette but let’s take a step back lobster at panera i did some research online and supposedly it combines lobster claw and knuckle meat with the tarragon lemon

Mayonnaise dressing layered on top and the price a whopping 22.99 basically 23. all right einstein get out you’re fired with all that said i’ll remind you we’re catching up to gordon so smack that subscribe button so we can keep making him sweat and now i say it’s time to

Head to panera taste their lobster rolls and then come back home and make it better we’re here at panera it’s time to send manny an undercover of course as we’ve done in the past all right let’s see how this works i made it out go get

Out of here to figure out exactly where this lobster is coming from is it fresh is it going to be good is it not even real lobster i’m going to find out let’s go get as much info as possible you guys got the lobster rolls now where

Do you guys get the lobsters from i don’t know have you tried it you guys catch it daily do you help catch the lobsters no if i got like 100 lobster rolls would i get a discount no lobsters definitely aren’t fresh definitely not fresh let’s get out of

Here let’s go back and taste these lobster rolls but in the meantime i’m going to get some lobsters hey joe how are you panera just came out with lobster rolls which is sort of shocking to us where the heck do you think panera is getting lobster i hope they’re getting it from

New england we’re gonna go make it at home we’re gonna make it better all right awesome give me lobbies this time of year lobsters out of canada and then maine as well i’ll pull a few lobsters out of the water and i’ll be over in a little bit thanks joe

See you soon we are back so not only do we order these lobster holes which i must say look fantastic we also got some of their lobster mac and cheese and i’ll be honest when i initially drove by that banner i did not have high hopes and just so we’re clear

This video is absolutely not sponsored in fact i legally have to tell you if it is you know i’m honest with you when it comes to food but this stuff looks great the lobster roll is loaded with lobster which is often my main beef with lobster rolls in the first place that they’re

Skimpy and don’t actually have any meat inside i will say however that having all that lettuce there is a little bit cheating if you ask me that’s cheating that’s to buff it up a little bit make it look like there’s more lobster meat than there actually is you’re not fooling me you’re not

Blowing me wants shame on you it fool me we can’t get fooled again quick bite of the mac and cheese and i’ll say this the lobster is okay does it taste like a sad lobster that’s been sitting in a tank of a supermarket for eight months no it’s not that bad but it

Definitely doesn’t taste like it just came right off the dock like our lobsters here now as for this lobster roll i’m optimistic i can definitely taste those notes of tarragon in here i’m not quite getting the lemon but the lobster meat seems a little bit fresher

There’s certainly a nice dose of mayo in there but not the healthy dose i’m looking for and again it’s too much less the bun is nice but they didn’t take that two seconds of extra effort to toast it we’re gonna make this better naturally we’ll begin our lobster rolls

With our lobsters hey guys anyone hungry want a lobster or you’re gonna like it wake up what the are you doing get out of here you’re fired i took little pieces of chicken and i gave it to the chicken it is now unfortunately the time at which we have

To kill the lobsters larry i’m sorry Larry’s friend i’m sorry as well now and go our lobsters or we’ll let them steam for about 15 minutes or until all those dark spots are gone while that lobster’s going we’re gonna make one of my favorite ingredients in the world brown butter after we melt our butter

All the way down we’ll continue to swirl it around until we have a beautiful light golden brown color after this we’ll let our brown butter sit and separate which will allow us to take out the perfect parts we want later while our butter begins to separate we’ll take

Out our lobster that is hot dredge them into this ice bath to cool them off for the record i’ve checked the gender it’s a male lobster i think you all remember my cameraman trying to figure out male verse female lobster manny any guesses what this one is here female close it’s

The other one 50 50. danny what’s this one female very good nailed it this one’s too small we’re letting her go we’re let him go letting him go and then it’s time to break him down Now i’ve taught you this before but it’s time to break down this lobster and get every last piece of meat out we’ll begin by cracking off both of the claws and arms here’s the claw and here’s that beautiful knuckle meat then ripping off that beautiful tail then with the tail

Upside down we’ll shimmy in our fork straighten it out and pop out the entire tail that’s the easiest way to do it next we can’t forget the meat in the back of the tail we’ll twist each one of these off and squeeze out that meat every last bit we’ll tear off all the

Legs and if you want to dig through the head you can find some meat in there now we’ll roll a rolling pin over those legs to push out all of that leg meat now to get out the knuckle meat we’ll pull it all out and finally we’ll break off this

Claw piece then crack and out comes our lobster to put together our lobster filling lobster a nice big scoop of mayo then perhaps most importantly and my secret ingredient for the best lobster roll ever a nice scoop of all those perfect golden brown milk solids from

Our brown butter that right there is the part that’s going to give us that flavor so you really want to aim to just scoop off what’s on the bottom this right here is liquid gold next up to go in line with the panera lobster roll we will put

A tiny bit of fresh tarragon which i’ll gently tear up as i drop it in followed by a few nice bits of fresh dill which to me is a must with any lobster roll then to finish things off some lemon zest nice squeeze of lemon juice and a

Little pinch of osmo white truffle now mix it all up then toss it in the fridge my last little trick with the lobster all has to do with the roll itself i’ll trim just the edge off of each side of our roll so that we’ve got a nice flat

Edge on each side to work with then we’ll come right down the center for where we’re going to put our lobster later now into our pan with the rest of that brown butter oil which doesn’t have any of the milk solid so it won’t burn

Then we’ll drop in that bun and let it toast once we’ve got that perfect golden brown side we flip that right there is the perfect toasted bun to load up our lobster roll we’ll open it up and add in tons and tons of lobster you’re not

Going to see me doing any of those lettuce tricks that everybody else does i want to load this thing up so that you can get the perfect bite with not so much lobster that you can’t actually bite it but enough that you know you’re not being ripped off we’ll finish it off

With a few sprigs of fresh dill a light kiss of lemon zest and just a bit of black osmo flaky salt just to get that nice contrast i gotta admit both of these look pretty great but this thing’s got seasonings that’ll knock your taste buds clean off and nobody gets lobster

As fresh as joe Eat up buddy